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Paula Arribas

Principal Investigator - SoilEvoEco Lab

Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation of Terrestrial Invertebrates:

I am an evolutionary ecologist with a deep interest in arthropod biodiversity. My research delves into the intricate processes that generate, destroy, and shape biodiversity in both space and time, and aims to integrate this knowledge within a conservation framework. At the forefront of my research is a dedicated focus on the diversity of soil arthropods, ranging from genes and species to functional traits, entire assemblages, and the ecosystemic processes that this biodiversity provides. Within this research line, I leverage the vast potential offered by both community-based and lineage-based High-Throughput Sequencing approaches, applying them across disciplines such as evolutionary ecology, conservation biology, and soil science.

Ongoing projects I led:

Mesofauna introduction in island soils: invasion patterns, drivers and tools for insular biosecurity and conservation of soil biodiversity, funded by MICINN.

Period: 2022-2025

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Academic Odyssey:

My journey in academia reached a pinnacle with my PhD in Biology in 2013 (Ex Cum Lau, University of Murcia), awarded at the national and European level. Embarking on a global academic adventure, then I undertook postdoctoral stays at Imperial College London/Natural History Museum London (Newton International 2014-2016) and the IPNA-CSIC (Juan de la Cierva 2016-2018 and H2020 iBioGen project 2018-2021) Then I got established at the IPNA-CSIC as an independent researcher funded by the Junior Leader La Caixa 2021-2022. Presently, I hold the position of Ramón and Cajal researcher at the IPNA-CSIC (Spain) and serve as Principal Investigator at the SoilEvoEco Lab.

Internationalisation, Teamwork and Mentoring:

My research activity has been characterized by a strong international collaborative context. I have participated in international projects, funded in national and international calls as PI, I have led international symposiums and workshops and the subsequent global network publications. Guiding the next generation of researchers, I have successfully supervised and guided three PhD students (two of them PhDs awarded internationally), and I am currently supervising two, trying to foster an environment that champions growth, collaboration and innovation.

Vision for the Future:

As I chart the course forward, my overarching ambition is to lead an inspired team of researchers at the forefront of evolutionary ecology and soil biodiversity. Together, we aim to propel the SoilEvoEco Lab into the echelons of international acclaim, contributing significantly to our understanding of the intricate dance between arthropods and their underground habitats. Welcome to the forefront of discovery!

Additional details

ORCID

Researcher ID: ABG-9998-2020

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pauarribas@ipna.csic.es

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My JCR Publications:

EMERSON, B.C.; BORGES, P.A.V.; CARDOSO, P.; CONVEY, P.; DEWAARD, J.R.; ECONOMO, E.P.; GILLESPIE, R.G.; KENNEDY, S.; KREHENWINKEL, H.; MEIER, R.; RODERICK, G.K.; STRASBERG, D.; THÉBAUD, C.; TRAVESET, A.; CREEDY, T.J.; MERAMVELIOTAKIS, E.; NOGUERALES, V.; OVERCAST, I.; MORLON, H.; PAPADOPOULOU, A.; VOGLER, A.P.; ARRIBAS, P.* & ANDÚJAR, C.*

Collective and harmonized high throughput barcoding of insular arthropod biodiversity: Toward a Genomic Observatories Network for islands.

Molecular Ecology

32: 6161-6176

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*equal contribution

OVERCAST, I.; NOGUERALES, V.; MERAMVELIOTAKIS, E.; ANDÚJAR, C.; ARRIBAS, P.; CREEDY, T.J.; EMERSON, B.C.; VOGLER, A.P.; PAPADOPOULOU, A. & MORLON, H.

Inferring the ecological and evolutionary determinants of community genetic diversity.

Molecular Ecology

32: 6093-6109

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OVERCAST, I.; ACHAZ, G.; AGUILÉE, R.; ANDÚJAR, C.; ARRIBAS, P.; CREEDY, T.J.; ECONOMO, E.P.; ETIENNE, R.; GILLESPIE, R.; JACQUET, C.; JAY, F. KENNEDY, S.; KREHENWINKEL, H.; PEREZ-LAMARQUE, B.; LAMBERT, A.; MERAMVELIOTAKIS, E.; NOGUERALES, V.; RODERICK, G.; ROGERS, H.; RUFFLEY, M.; SANMARTIN, I.; VOGLER, A.P.; PAPADOPOULOU, A.; EMERSON, B.C. & MORLON, H.

Towards a genetic theory of island biogeography: Inferring processes from multidimensional community-scale data.

Global Ecology and Biogeography

32:4-23

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SUÁREZ, D.; ARRIBAS, P.; MACIAS-HERNÁNDEZ, N. & EMERSON, B.C.

Dispersal ability and niche breadth influence interspecific variation in spider abundance and occupancy.

Royal Society Open Science

10: 230051

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NOGUERALES, V.; MERAMVELIOTAKIS, E.; CASTRO-INSUA, A.; ANDÚJAR, C.; ARRIBAS, P.; CREEDY, T.J.; OVERCAST, I.; MORLON, H.; EMERSON, B.C.; VOGLER, A.P. & PAPADOPOULOU, A.

Community metabarcoding reveals the relative role of environmental filtering and spatial processes in metacommunity dynamics of soil microarthropods across a mosaic of montane forests.

Molecular Ecology

32: 6110-6128

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ARJONA, Y.; ARRIBAS, P.; SALCES-CASTELLANO, A.; LÓPEZ, H.; EMERSON, B.C. & ANDÚJAR, C.

Metabarcoding for biodiversity inventory blind spots: a test case using the beetle fauna of an insular cloud forest

Molecular Ecology

2: 6130-6146

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THEISSINGER, K.; FERNANDES, C.; FORMENTI, G.; […]; THE ERGA CONSORTIUM [ARRIBAS, P.]

How genomics can help biodiversity conservation.

Trends in Genetics

39: 545-559

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ANDÚJAR, C.; ARRIBAS, P.; LÓPEZ, H.; ARJONA, Y.; PÉREZ-DELGADO, A.; OROMÍ, P.; VOGLER, A.P. & EMERSON, B.C.

Community assembly and metaphylogeography of soil biodiversity: insights from haplotype-level community DNA metabarcoding within an oceanic island.

Molecular Ecology

1: 4078-4094

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SUÁREZ, D.; ARRIBAS, P.; JIMÉNEZ-GARCÍA, E. & EMERSON, B.C.

Dispersal ability and its consequences for population genetic differenciation and diversification.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

289, 20220489

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PÉREZ-DELGADO, A.; ARRIBAS, P.; HERNÁNDO, C.; LÓPEZ, H.; ARJONA, Y.; SUÁREZ, D.; EMERSON, B.C. & ANDÚJAR, C.

Hidden island endemic species, and their implications for cryptic speciation within soil arthropods.

Journal of Biogeography

49: 1367-1380

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ARRIBAS, P.; ANDÚJAR, C.; BOHMANN, K.; DEWAARD, J.R.; ECONOMO, E.P.; ELBRECHT, V.; GEISEN, S.; GOBERNA, M.; KREHENWINKEL, H.; NOVOTNY, V.; ZINGER, L.; CREEDY, T.J.; MERAMVELIOTAKIS, E.; NOGUERALES, V.; OVERCAST, I.; MORLON, H.; PAPADOPOULOU, A.; VOGLER, A.P. & EMERSON B.C.

Toward global integration of biodiversity big data: a harmonised metabarcode data generation module for terrestrial arthropods.

GigaScience

11: giac065

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FORMENTI, G.; THEISSINGER, K.; FERNANDES, C.; BISTA, I.; BOMBARELY, A., BLEIDORN, C.; […]; ARRIBAS, P.; […] & ZAMMIT, G.

The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics.

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

37: 3

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CREEDY, T.J.; ANDÚJAR, C.; MERAMVELIOTAKIS, E.; NOGUERALES, V.; OVERCAST, I.; PAPADOPOULOU, A.; MORLON, H.; VOGLER, A.P.; EMERSON, B.C. & ARRIBAS, P.

Coming of age for COI metabarcoding of whole organism community DNA: towards bioinformatic harmonisation.

Molecular Ecology

22: 847-861

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ALONSO, P.; PARGA-DANS, E.; ARRIBAS, P.; PÉREZ, O.; ZUMBADO, M.L.; HERNÁNDEZ, M.M.; RODRÍGUEZ-HERNÁNDEZ, A. & ANDÚJAR, C.

Elemental composition, rare earths and minority elements in organic and conventional wines from volcanic areas: The Canary Islands (Spain).

PLoS ONE

16: e0258739

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GÁLVEZ-REYES, N.; ARRIBAS, P.; ANDÚJAR, C.; EMERSON, B.C.; PIÑERO, D. & MASTRETA-YANES, A.

Local-scale dispersal constraints promote spatial structure and arthropod diversity within a tropical sky-island.

Molecular Ecology

30: 48-61

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SALCES-CASTELLANO, A.; ANDÚJAR, C.; LÓPEZ, H.; PÉREZ-DELGADO, A.; ARRIBAS, P.* & EMERSON, B.C.*

Flightlessness in insects enhances diversification and determines assemblage structure across whole communities.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B

288: 20202646

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*equal contribution

ANDÚJAR, C.; CREEDY, T.J.; ARRIBAS, P.; LÓPEZ H.; SALCES-CASTELLANO, A.; PÉREZ-DELGADO, A., VOGLER, A.P. & EMERSON, B.C.

Validated removal of nuclear pseudogenes and sequencing artefacts from mitochondrial metabarcode data.

Molecular Ecology Resources

21: 1772-1787

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*Perspective on our paper published in same Molecular Ecology Resources issue*
*Highlighted as a From the cover article*

ARRIBAS, P.; ANDÚJAR, C.; BIDARTONDO, M.I.; BOHMANN, K.; COISSAC, E.; CREER, S.; DEWAARD, J.R.; ELBRECHT, V.; FICETOLA, G.F.; GOBERNA, M.; KENNEDY, S.; KREHENWINKEL, H.; LEESE, F,; NOVOTNY, V.; RONQUIST, F.; YU, D.W.; ZINGER, L.; CREEDY, T.J.; MERAMVELIOTAKIS, E.; NOGUERALES, V.; OVERCAST, I.; MORLON, H.; VOGLER, A.P.; PAPADOPOULOU, A. & EMERSON B.C.

Connecting high-throughput biodiversity inventories – opportunities for a site-based genomic framework for global integration and synthesis.

Molecular Ecology

30: 1120-1135

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SALCES-CASTELLANO, A.; STANKOWSKI, S.; ARRIBAS, P.; PATIÑO, J.; KARGER, D.N.; BUTLIN, R. & EMERSON, B.C.

Long-term cloud forest response to climate warming revealed by insect speciation.

Evolution

75: 231-244

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ARRIBAS, P.; ANDÚJAR, C.; SALCES-CASTELLANO, A.; EMERSON, B.C. & VOGLER, A.P.

The limited spatial scale of dispersal in soil arthropods revealed with whole-community haplotype-level metabarcoding.

Molecular Ecology

30: 48-61

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VILLASTRIGO, A.; ARRIBAS, P. & RIBERA, I.

Irreversible habitat specialization does not constraint diversification in hypersaline water beetles.

Molecular Ecology

29: 3637-3648

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WATERS, J.; EMERSON, B.C. ARRIBAS, P. & McCULLOCH, G.

Dispersal reduction: causes, genomic mechanisms, and evolutionary consequences.

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

35: 512-522

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ARRIBAS, P.; ANDÚJAR, C.; MORAZA, M.L.; LINARD, B.; EMERSON, B.C. & VOGLER, A.P.

Mitochondrial metagenomics reveals the ancient origin and phylodiversity of soil mites and provides a phylogeny for the Acari.

Molecular Biology and Evolution

37: 683–694

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SALCES-CASTELLANO, A.; PATIÑO, J.; ALVAREZ, N.; ANDÚJAR, C.; ARRIBAS, P.; BRAOJOS-RUIZ, J.J.; del ARCO-AGUILAR, M.; GARCÍA-OLIVARES, V.; KARGER, D.; LÓPEZ, H.; MANOLOPOULOU, I.; OROMÍ, P.; PÉREZ-DELGADO, A.J.; PETERMAN, W.E.; FIJSKIJK, K.F. & EMERSON, B.C.

Microclimate drives community-wide speciation on an oceanic island.

Ecology Letters

23: 305-315

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CREEDY, T.; NORMAN, H.; TANG, C.; QUING CHIN, K.; ANDÚJAR, C.; ARRIBAS, P.; O’CONNOR, R.; CARVELL, C.; NOTTON, D. & VOGLER, A.P.

A validated workflow for rapid taxonomic assignment and monitoring of a national fauna of bees (Apiformes) using high throughput barcoding.

Molecular Ecology Resources

20: 40-53

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EMERSON, B.C.; SALCES-CASTELLANO, A. & ARRIBAS, P.

Dispersal limitation: evolutionary origins and consequences in arthropods.

Molecular Ecology

28: 3137-3140

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ANDÚJAR, C.; ARRIBAS, P.; MOTYKA, M.; BOCEK, M.; BOCAK, L.; LINARD, B. & VOGLER, A.P.

New mitochondrial genomes of thirty-nine soil dwelling Coleoptera from metagenome sequencing.

Mitochondrial DNA Part B

4: 2447-2450

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GUTIÉRREZ-CÁNOVAS, C.; ARRIBAS, P.; NASELLI-FLORES, L.; BENNAS, N.; FINOCCHIARO, M.; MILLÁN, A. & VELASCO, J.

Evaluating anthropogenic impacts on naturally stressed ecosystems: Revisiting river classifications and biomonitoring metrics along salinity gradients.

Science of The Total Environment

658: 912-921

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ARRIBAS, P.; GUTIÉRREZ-CÁNOVAS, C.; BOTELLA-CRUZ, M.; CAÑEDO-ARGÜELLES, M.; CARBONELL, J.A.; MILLÁN, A.; PALLARÉS, S.; VELASCO, J. & SÁNCHEZ-FERNÁNDEZ, D.

Insect communities in saline waters consist of realized but not fundamental niche specialists.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

374: 20180008

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VELASCO, J.; GUTIÉRREZ-CÁNOVAS, C.; BOTELLA-CRUZ, M.; SÁNCHEZ-FERNÁNDEZ, D.; ARRIBAS, P.; CARBONELL, J.A.; MILLÁN, A. & PALLARÉS, S.

Effects of salinity changes on aquatic organisms in a multiple stressor context.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

374: 20180011

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ANDÚJAR, C.; ARRIBAS, P.; YU, D.W.; VOGLER, A.P. & EMERSON B.C.

Why the COI barcode should be the community DNA metabarcode for the metazoa.

Molecular Ecology

27: 3968-3975

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LINARD, B.; CRAMPTON-PLATT, A.; MORINIERE, J.; TIMMERMANS, M.J.; ANDÚJAR, C.; ARRIBAS, P.; MILLER, K.; LIPECKI, J.; FAVREAU, E.; GÓMEZ-RODRÍGUEZ, C.; BARTON, C.; NIE, R.E.; GILLET, C.P.D.T.; BREESCHOTEN, T.; BOCAK, L. & VOGLER, A.P.

The contribution of mitochondrial metagenomics to largescale data mining and phylogenetic analysis of Coleoptera.

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

128: 1-11

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ANDÚJAR, C.; ARRIBAS, P.; GRAY, C.; BRUCE, K.; WOODWARD, G.; YU, D. & VOGLER, A.P.

Metabarcoding of freshwater invertebrates to detect the effects of a pesticide spill.

Molecular Ecology

27: 146-166

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ANDÚJAR, C.; PÉREZ, S.; ARRIBAS, P.; ZABALLOS, J.; VOGLER, A.P. & RIBERA, I.

 Speciation below ground: Tempo and mode of diversification in a radiation of endogean ground beetles. 

Molecular Ecology

26: 6053-6070

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PALLARÉS, S.; ARRIBAS, P.; BILTON, D.T.; MILLÁN, A.; VELASCO, J. & RIBERA, I.

The chicken or the egg? Adaptation to desiccation and salinity tolerance in a lineage of water beetles.

Molecular Ecology

26: 5614-5628

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ANDÚJAR, C.; ARRIBAS, P. & VOGLER, A.P.

Terra incognita of soil biodiversity: unseen invasions under our feet.

Molecular Ecology

26: 3087–3089

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ANDÚJAR, C.; ARRIBAS, P.; LINARD, B.; KUNDRATA, R.; BOCAK, L. & VOGLER, A.P.

The mitochondrial genome of Iberobaenia (Coleoptera: Iberobaeniidae): First rearrangement of protein coding genes in the beetles.

Mitochondrial DNA

28(2): 156-158

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PALLARÉS, S.; BOTELLA-CRUZ, M.; ARRIBAS, P.; MILLÁN, A. & VELASCO, J.

Aquatic insects in a multistress environment: cross-tolerance to salinity and desiccation.

Journal of Experimental Biology

220: 1277-1286

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LINARD, B.; ARRIBAS, P.; ANDÚJAR, C.; CRAMPTON-PLATT, A.; VOGLER, A.P.

The mitogenome of Hydropsyche pellucidula (Hydropsychidae): first gene arrangement in the insect order Trichoptera.

Mitochondrial DNA

28(1): 71-72

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LINARD, B.*; ARRIBAS, P.*; ANDÚJAR, C.; CRAMPTON-PLATT, A.; VOGLER, A.P.

Lessons from genome skimming of arthropod-preserving ethanol.

Molecular Ecology Resources

16(6): 1365-1377

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*equal contribution

PALLARÉS, S.; VELASCO, J.; MILLÁN, A.; BILTON, D.T. & ARRIBAS, P.

Aquatic insects dealing with dehydration: do desiccation resistance traits differ in species with contrasting habitat preferences?

PeerJ

4: e2382

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ARRIBAS, P.; ANDÚJAR, C.; HOPKINS, K.; SHEPHERD, M. & VOGLER, A.P.

Metabarcoding and mitochondrial metagenomics of endogean arthropods to unveil mesofauna of the soil.

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

7(1): 1071-1081

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ARRIBAS, P.; ABELLÁN, P.; VELASCO, J. & MILLÁN, A.

Evolutionary ecology, biogeography and conservation of water beetles in Mediterranean saline ecosystems.

Limnetica

34(2): 481-494

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ANDÚJAR, C.; ARRIBAS, P.; RUZICKA, F.; CRAMPTON-PLATT, A.; TIMMERMANS M.J., A. & VOGLER, A.P.

Phylogenetic community ecology of soil biodiversity using mitochondrial metagenomics.

Molecular Ecology

24(14): 3603-3617

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*Perspective on our paper published in same Molecular Ecology issue*

PALLARÉS, S.; ARRIBAS, P.; BILTON, D.T.; MILLÁN, A. & VELASCO, J.

The comparative osmoregulatory ability of two water beetle genera whose species span the fresh-hypersaline gradient in inland waters (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydrophilidae).

PloS ONE

10(4): e0124299

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ANDÚJAR, C.; ARRIBAS, P.; RUIZ, C.; SERRANO, J.; GÓMEZ-ZURITA, J.

Integration of conflict into Integrative Taxonomy: Fitting hybridization in the delimitation of species in Mesocarabus (Coleoptera: Carabidae).

Molecular Ecology

23(17): 4344-4361

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*Perspective on our paper published in same Molecular Ecology issue*

ARRIBAS, P.; ANDÚJAR, C.; ABELLÁN, P.; VELASCO, J.; MILLÁN, A. & RIBERA, I.

Tempo and mode of the multiple origins of salinity tolerance in a water beetle lineage.

Molecular Ecology

23(2): 360-373

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CÉSPEDES, V.; PALLARÉS, S.; ARRIBAS, P.; MILLÁN, A. & VELASCO, J.

Water beetle tolerance to salinity and anionic composition and its relationship to habitat occupancy.

Journal of Insect Physiology

59(10): 1076-1084

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ARRIBAS, P.; ANDÚJAR, C.; SÁNCHEZ-FERNÁNDEZ, D.; ABELLÁN, P. & MILLÁN, A.

Integrative taxonomy and conservation of cryptic beetles in the Mediterranean region (Hydrophilidae).

Zoologica Scripta

42(2): 182-200

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PALLARÉS, S.; ARRIBAS, P.; CÉSPEDES, V.; P.; MILLÁN, A. & VELASCO, J.

Lethal and sublethal behavioural responses of saline water beetles to acute heat and osmotic stress.

Ecological Entomology

37(6): 508-520

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ARRIBAS, P.; ABELLÁN, P.; VELASCO, J.; BILTON, D.T.; MILLÁN, A. & SÁNCHEZ-FERNÁNDEZ, D.

Evaluating drivers of vulnerability to climate change: a guide for insect conservation strategies.

Global Change Biology

8(7): 2135-2146

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ABELLÁN, P.; ARRIBAS, P. & SVENNING, J.C.

Geological habitat template overrides late Quaternary climate change as a determinant of range dynamics and phylogeography in some habitat-specialist water beetles.

Journal of Biogeography

39(5): 970-983

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ARRIBAS, P.; VELASCO, J.; ABELLÁN, P.; SÁNCHEZ-FERNÁNDEZ, D.; ANDÚJAR, C.; CALOSI, P.; MILLÁN, A.; RIBERA, I. & BILTON, D.T.

Dispersal ability rather than ecological tolerance drives differences in range size between lentic and lotic water beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae).

Journal of Biogeography

39(5): 984-994

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MILLÁN, A.; VELASCO, J.; GUTIÉRREZ-CÁNOVAS, C.; ARRIBAS, P.; PICAZO, F; SÁNCHEZ-FERNÁNDEZ, D. & ABELLÁN, P.

Mediterranean saline streams in southeast Spain: What do we know?

Journal of Arid Environments

75(12): 1352-1359

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CARBONELL, J. A., ABELLÁN, P., ARRIBAS, P., ELDER, J. F. & MILLÁN. A.

The Genus Aphelocheirus Westwood, 1833 (Hemiptera: Aphelocheiridae) in the Iberian Peninsula.

Zootaxa

2771: 1-16

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SÁNCHEZ‐FERNÁNDEZ, D.; CALOSI, P.; ATFIELD, A.; ARRIBAS, P.; VELASCO, J.; SPICER, J.I.; MILLÁN, A. & BILTON, D.T.

Reduced salinities compromise the thermal tolerance of hypersaline specialist diving beetles.

Physiological entomology

35(3): 265-273

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ARRIBAS, P.; VELASCO, J.; ABELLÁN, P.; SÁNCHEZ‐FERNÁNDEZ, D.; CALOSI, P.; BILTON, D.T. & MILLÁN, A.

Dispersal responses and tolerance to temperature and salinity in two hydraenid beetles from hypersaline inland waters.

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A

153(2): S171 – S172

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